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Gary Benitt

Gary Benitt is a seasoned tech entrepreneur with 16 years of diverse management experience, mostly within the customer service industry. Gary has managed various technology teams including development, quality assurance and client implementations. More importantly, Gary has broad knowledge across all facets of growing a business from startup mode into a mature organization. Previously Gary was with AOL, after his prior startup (Goowy Media) was acquired in early 2008. At Goowy, Gary was one of the co-founders and served as the COO/CFO. Gary has now returned to his customer service roots and has teamed up with his long time friends to co-found Desk.com. Gary is the COO of Desk.com - responsible for, among other things, 'everything else'.

Trust is the #1 value for the Desk.com team and we have always taken a strong stance for the protection of our customers. We are very pleased to share that Desk.com has met stringent requirements and now participates in the U.S.-European Union and U.S.-Swiss Safe Harbor programs as of August 13.
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